Post Law School Program for Nigeria

Why Participate in the Mentorship Program

  • Today’s Law Firms are recruiting attorneys who are comfortable with technology as they are few and far between. To succeed in law today, young attorneys should be prepared for the needed liaison and management required by Technology disruption in law, E-Discovery, specifically, working with litigation technology professionals.

  • This training is intended to bring the early bar up to speed on the sweeping changes in law and technology. The Mentorship training delves into these questions and provides a starting point for further consideration of legal education, developing digital curriculum and leveraging technology to increase access to law in the developing world.

  • It provides up-to-date practical information that would impact on the lawyers' efficiency to effectively represent clients in a world meshed in digital technology, eDiscovery processes and the basic understanding of forensic expert evidence.

  • Participants who acquire this new skillset will be better positioned to help law firms compete through the appropriate use of law practice technology and other innovative practices.

  • Educating participants about the modern legal demand in eDiscovery, Evidence in the digital domain, technology driven law practice and automation give participants an advantage when seeking employment outside of traditional legal jobs, such as in the increasingly large and prosperous industry that provides law-related services.

The Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, you must satisfy the following criteria:

  • You are a member of the Bar or the Law Society in the relevant country
  • You are not more than five (5) post call
  • You are currently engaged as a Barrister and or Solicitor
  • You have not previously participated as a mentee in this program
  • You commit to meeting with your mentor at least once per month for the 4-month program on a designated online platform
  • You complete and submit an online application form with payment.

What are the Benefits?

  • Six (6) Months Free Training
  • Resource Material: Book on Digital Evidence & eDiscovery Law Practice in Nigeria
  • AttorneysBrief - 1 Year Free Subscription (after training)
  • LogikDoc - 1 Year Free Subscription (after training)
  • ExhibitSecure - 1 Year Free Subscription (after training)
  • Free Website Development (Optional)

Our Mentorship Partners

We partner with Whitehall Solicitors, Trustwave Secure Ltd India (Application & Tool Provider) & Mibiz Forensic Lab India  for this mentorship program.

Cost

The entire cost for this program is the sum of Four Hundred and Fifty thousand naira (N450,000).

This sum of Four Hundred and Fifty thousand naira (N450,000) has been subsidised by DECFI and Whitehall Solicitors. To that extend therefore, the training is free but all participants are expected to pay a token sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand naira (N250,000) for resource courseware as follows:

1. The Book on Digital Evidence & eDiscovery Law Practice in Nigeria.

Digital Evidence and eDiscovery Law Practice, a one thousand three hundred paged book is an Electronic Evidentiary Tool for 21st Century Law Practice, for Admissibility of Digital Evidence, Digital Forensics, & Management of eDiscovery Law Practice, for the Bar and the Bench, authored by Emeka Arinze, a certified Digital Forensic Attorney. The book is classified into five (5) parts.
www.decfi.com.ng/book-overview

2. AttorneysBrief.

In this anytime, anywhere digital eco-system, AttorneysBrief is an industry-leading purpose-built, cloud-based solutions that brings the best digital skills for lawyers and law firms in the management of their Law Practice, Client Portal, Law Office, Security and Support Tools with a well-defined Training & Mentoring Academy. Now you can run your law practice and manage your law firm remotely from any device and from anywhere within the globe.
www.attorneysbrief.com

3. LogikDoc.

LogikDoc is an eDiscovery cloud-based litigation platform for corporate counsels, litigators and government attorneys, internal investigations and data governance policies within a secure cloud platform. As legal work has shifted almost entirely to the digital management of electronic document and forming an integral part of the litigation process, LogikDoc enables you to record or pull information and records from the massive volumes of content that span the enterprise, for the purposes of identifying, collecting, processing, and reviewing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a legal request or investigation. It is an end-to-end solution that covers the entire litigation lifecycle — from processing, early case assessment, review to production for court trial engagement.
www.logikdoc.com

4. ExhibitSecure.

ExhibitSecure Application for security and authentication of digital evidence — trial presentation for admissibility digital evidence. ExhibitSecure is a proprietary exhibit management web application specifically designed to help practicing attorneys, law firms, corporations, government attorneys, and investigators with the management, processing, review, analysis and production of vast amounts of digital exhibits, when found expedient in the course of trial.
www.exhibitsecure.com

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DECFI is poised to deliver the necessary skills to Legal Communities Within The African Bar: The Judiciary; University Law Faculties; Law Schools; In-House Corporate Counsel And Other Leading Industry Participants, in the development and acquisition of the technical knowledge in meeting the demand of the critical domain of emerging eDiscovery and digital evidence.

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